Police in England are questioning three people arrested yesterday and searching several recovered vehicles in a bid to catch a gang that stole as much as 50 million pounds ($88 million) from a security depot. The arrested trio includes a 41-year-old woman who walked into a bank in Bromley, south London, with cash that had the markings of the depot, said Adrian Leppard, assistant chief constable of police in Kent, a county southeast of the capital. The robbery, one of Britain's largest, occurred early Feb. 22 when thieves abducted the manager of the Securitas AB storage site and his family. Six men wearing ski masks and carrying handguns forced their way into the building in Tonbridge, Kent, which stores cash for the Bank of England, filled a truck with cash and fled. Authorities haven't calculated the exact value of the missing banknotes. ... http://quote.bloomberg.com

The 37-year-old woman who married her son’s 15-year-old friend pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of statutory rape, child molestation and enticing a minor.Days before her arrest in November, Lisa Lynnette Clark married the boy under a 1962 law that set the marrying age in Georgia at 16 but made an exception in the case of pregnancy. Clark gave birth earlier this month....http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11541418/from/RSS/

Bessy the Burmese python is recovering in an animal shelter after spending two weeks dodging searchers and an infrared camera in a 57,000-square-foot apartment complex. The 8-foot-snake's hiding spot was found Tuesday by another "snake" a 100-foot-long device with a camera on the end normally used to locate plumbing problems in hard-to-reach places. "It's the most interesting plumbing job I've had so far," said Kip Salas of Advanced Plumbing, who discovered Bessy in the bathroom ceiling after a three-hour search of the southeastern Idaho apartment below the unit from which she escaped. "I'm just glad she's alive and not hurt too badly," Chelsea Stanford, the python's owner, told the Post Register. ...http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1658456

Iraq's most influential Shiite political leader called Friday for Sunni-Shiite unity as religious figures sought to calm passions and pull the nation from the brink of civil war after the bombing of a Shiite shrine two days ago and a wave of deadly reprisal attacks. The government, meanwhile, announced stepped-up security measures, including a ban on entering or leaving Baghdad and deployment of armed forces in tense areas. An extraordinary daytime curfew in Baghdad and three nearby provinces appeared to have blunted the wave of attacks on Sunni mosques that followed Wednesday's bombing, which destroyed the golden dome of the Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra. Still, Iraqis feared the violence that killed about 130 people after the Samarra attack had pushed the country closer to sectarian civil war than at any time since the U.S.-led invasion nearly three years ago. ...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1657999&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

At least 51 people have been killed in a fire at a textile mill in Bangladesh, police say. More than 100 others were injured in the blaze in the south-eastern port city of Chittagong. Soldiers were brought in to take over rescue work from firefighters, after the fire reduced a three-storey building to rubble. At least 500 workers were inside the mill when the fire broke out. Officials are trying to establish the cause. The BBC's Waliur Rahman in Dhaka says the blaze has been described by officials as the country's worst ever factory fire. Most of the survivors had to jump from windows as the only exit from the factory was reportedly locked when the fire broke out, a fire department official, Rashidul Islam Majumder, told the BBC. No factory representatives were available for comment. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4745894.stm

Suicide bombers in explosives-laden cars attacked the world's largest oil processing facility Friday, but were prevented from breaking through the gates when guards opened fire on them, causing the vehicles to explode, officials said. The Saudi oil minister said the blast "did not affect operations" at the Abqaiq facility, denying an earlier report on Al-Arabiya television that the flow of oil was halted briefly after a pipeline was damaged. The facility "continued to operate normally. Export operations continued in full," the minister, Ali Naimi, said in a statement. The price of oil jumped by more than $1.20 on world markets as they heard of the attack. The April delivery price of Nymex sweet light crude, the U.S. benchmark, rose $1.26 to $61.80. The European benchmark, Brent crude, leaped $1.21 to $61.75 for April delivery. ...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1657907